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- 21 Jan 2015
- News
An Ounce of Preparation Is Worth a Pound of Prototypes
- 20 Dec 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Launches Fund for Student Start-Ups
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard's Lean Start-Up Winners Get $50K
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Action Plan: In Context
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
extension, cultivate peace and economic opportunity in a region where growing saffron has become a more viable alternative to growing opium. “What better way to use our HBS education than for sustainable agriculture and business in...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is used by oil companies...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
wondering if there was some way we could have a positive impact on the local economy.” The Turners considered maple sugaring at a neighbor’s casual suggestion, and the more they learned about it, the more it seemed like a viable option....
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Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
product and pay myself a salary. But it didn't work out that way. I went out and pitched with just a deck and some user research, and I got no's from everyone. So I pitched 10 investors, all of them said no. Actually, one of them said...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
observes, however, that while large companies often find it easy to identify opportunities and needs for new product ideas, "they find it difficult to shift into an entrepreneurial mindset that creates new View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
surface, a green roof, or supporting solar panels or wind turbines when possible,” Carty says. “And building wastewater can be treated and reused for flushing toilets and watering plants, for example, which has the added benefit of diverting water discharge from...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Launch Codes
“Too often, they’ll design something for what they think their customers’ needs are, and they haven’t developed plans to test these assumptions.” #2 Aiming for perfection: “You want to go to market with a minimally View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
commercialized it. Since then, Magagnini and Strugatz had worked tirelessly to bring the product to market, and yet they still discarded more than they successfully manufactured. Meanwhile, Magagnini had too little time for Dante and his...
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